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Bury North

Polluted by sewage 656 times in 2025 lasting 2,047 hours

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Live data for Bury North in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 256 hours of sewage overflows, from 50 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Bury North in 2025

19 Sites polluted by United Utilities
656 sewage dumps
2,047 hours duration
That's 2.84 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bury North in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
United Utilities River Irwell BURY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 95 759 100
United Utilities River Irwell PEEL HALL CSO (BRY0140) 88 260 99.6
United Utilities Black Brook NEW STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 68 170 98.8
United Utilities River Irwell TANPITS ROAD CSO 53 166 99.9
United Utilities River Irwell NUTTALL HALL ROAD CSO 45 163 86.8
United Utilities River Irwell BUCKLEY WELLS CSO 091DG 51 123 99.9
United Utilities Walmersley Brook BURNLEY ROAD CSO 099BL 67 100 98.9
United Utilities Kirklees Brook OFF BRANDLESHOLME RD (MH12) CSO 31 76 99.9
United Utilities Barn Brook PIMHOLE CSO 49 71 99.8
United Utilities River Irwell RAILWAY STREET CSO 29 63 99.9
United Utilities River Roch ROCHDALE ROAD/WASH LANE SSO 25 26 100
United Utilities River Irwell PEEL HALL DRIVE CSO 13 24 97.3
United Utilities River Irwell SEEDFIELD SECONDARY MODERN SCHL CSO 24 21 60.7
United Utilities Woodhill Brook WOODHILL ROAD CSO 092JP 5 7 99.5
United Utilities River Irwell WATERSIDE MILL CSO 3 6 61.8
United Utilities Clv River Roch OPP 182 ROCHDALE ROAD CSO (BRY0141) 4 3 96.9
United Utilities River Irwell CARR STREET CSO 099BP 4 2 96.7
United Utilities Unnamed Pond CHURCH STREET WEST CSO 1 0 100
United Utilities Clvrtd Section Gypsy Brook KINGFISHER DRIVE CSO 092BS 1 0 100
United Utilities Walmersely Brook 807 WALMERSLEY ROAD (BURY) CSO 0 0 96.5
United Utilities River Roch BRIDGE HALL LANE CSO 0 0 100
United Utilities Pigs Lea Brook Rvr Irwell OFF WALMERSLEY ROAD CSO 092JL 0 0 100
United Utilities Barn Brook PRIMROSE HILL CSO 0 0 77.6
United Utilities River Irwell Via Culvert REDVALES ROAD CSO 0 0 94.4

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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